pocket clock

noun

noun

Historical A small portable timepiece; a pocket watch.

Though as small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele / Doth each mismotion and distemper feele…c. 1631, John Donne, Obsequy on the Lord Harrington:
We know there may be as much curiosity of contrivance, and excellency of form in a very small Pocket-clock, that takes up not an Inch square of room, as there may be in a Church-clock that fills a whole room […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XX:

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